5.2 Crafted Vanity Items: Lightning-Forged Weapons, Engineering Pet

Patch 5.2 has a lot of serious raid content, but there's also some vanity items being added to professions. Blacksmiths get to craft replica versions of all those distinctive (and sadly removed) Burning Crusade weapons!

Blacksmithing: Lightning Forged Weapons

If you always wanted to craft iconic Blacksmithing weapons like or but didn't learn the plans prior to Cataclysm, it looks like you'll be able to create replica weapons in Patch 5.2 like !

In the last PTR build, we datamined new blacksmithing plans that were named after distinctive weapons from the Burning Crusade. These BoP weapons were only craftable by Weaponsmiths, and when specializations were removed in Cataclysm, players were no longer able to learn these plans. In addition, players couldn't learn all the weapons in Burning Crusade even if they were Weaponsmiths because there were further weapon subsets, such as Master Hammersmith.

Blizzard has already told us that there will be a special Lightning Forge on the , which will be unlocked after some time has passed.

From the 5.2 PTR Patch Notes: "As the heroes conquer the Isle, they will unlock the powerful Lightning Forge, which will allow Blacksmiths to forge mighty raid-worthy items, as well as classic weapons from the past."

Click the cut to learn more about crafting the weapons and view their 3D Models!

Crafting the Weapons

, needed for all the new weapons, is a BoP item crafted from .

Players learn how to craft this ingot from a quest starting with . It begins and rewards the player with and .

: Create a Lightning Steel Ingot from 10 s. In the process, you may gain additional knowledge of Ghost Iron, and discover a Blacksmithing plan you have yet to learn.

You can learn additional 5.2 epic and PvP recipes when doing this transmute.

Upon completing , you will get which contains the following seven plans:

Based on user comments, it seems that crafting these ilvl 463 weapons will let you learn how to craft the next level up. For example, making will teach you the recipe for .As making higher-level weapons consumes the lower-level weapon made and everything requires , collecting all of the different weapons for transmog will be a time consuming and expensive processs.

On the PTR, the Lightning Forge is inaccessible, as a sea of lightning covers the courtyard. In an earlier PTR build, we were able to visit the Lightning Forge and it looked pretty neat with lightning sparks covering an orb on the ceiling.

Weapon Models and Costs

Similar to the original Burning Crusade weapons, some of the new replica weapons will require you to use a lesser-quality weapon as a reagent. For example, required , is required for .

Right now, we have the profession spells for these new weapons, but not the actual item IDs for all of them. We'll update as we find more.

But on a serious note - It would be nice to see them bring back a lot of older items, even if just for vanity.

perculia의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T12:41:27-06:00

It seems that one, out of the six new weapons, has the crazy inflated stats. I've changed the example item to be 다시 태어난 불꽃의 수호검 instead.

I do think level 70 is a bit OP though for ilvl 463. Perhaps it's a placeholder since the original weapon was level 70.

Rainemard의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T12:48:52-06:00

required level and stat amounts are totally intended and exactly what we'll see on live. Yup.

If only, lol.

I kinda wish they would've made hi-res models for the weapons (like the teaser dungeon sets in character creation). They could have left the original weapons with the old models, in order to preserve the prestige for those old TBC Weaponsmiths. Honestly though, i'm just really excited they're back!

Nulgar의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T12:52:22-06:00

Forgot to make my warrior a Master Axesmith when it was still available, only took her to 70+ after WotLK launched, when BS specializations already didn't matter anymore, so I couldn't DW Bloodmoon/Mooncleaver when Transmog came around >_< these are gonna be expensive, but I will craft them!

Icee의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:07:38-06:00

Small error

If you always wanted to craft iconic Blacksmithing weapons like Stormherald or Drakefist Hammer but didn't learn the plans prior to Cataclysm,

Should say These patterns were removed from players prior to

perculia의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:12:23-06:00

I don't think they were removed from players who learnt them--my DK can still make a Stormherald. Just logged in and checked her profession tab.

Malebogia의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:23:41-06:00

Oh, wow... I knew the models were coming back, but I just assumed they would be BOP like the original recipes were. This is awesome! I always wanted a Dragonmaw hammer for my warrior just cuz it looks so cool, but my warrior is not my blacksmith. Very stoked about this!

Baracuda의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:26:07-06:00

required level and stat amounts are totally intended and exactly what we'll see on live. Yup.

If only, lol.

I kinda wish they would've made hi-res models for the weapons (like the teaser dungeon sets in character creation). They could have left the original weapons with the old models, in order to preserve the prestige for those old TBC Weaponsmiths. Honestly though, i'm just really excited they're back!

I agree, my Stormherald and Lionheart Executioner will at least have their own name with the current patch :p

Spectrezh의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:27:47-06:00

I don't think they were removed from players who learnt them--my DK can still make a Stormherald. Just logged in and checked her profession tab.

Nope my pally from vanilla still can make Stormherald. I actually just did. mats werent easy to come by though. Search Karleya, my horde Karleya (yea both are mine :D) in Armory. Shes has her mace xmogged to Stormherald.

I cant wait to use Lionheart though. It was one with bad stats for melee but least we can xmog it soon.

Edit: well she did lol.

Llarold의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:35:04-06:00

The name for this post on the front page needs to be "Old Blacksmithing Transmog Weapons."

CalaelenDT의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:38:42-06:00

Pierce looks absolutely awesome, and it acting like a campfire makes it even more badass! I know what I'll be making first!

ixcartmanxl의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:43:38-06:00

Yay stunherald is back

FrenchToast06의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T13:51:45-06:00

Im so happy they are adding a two-person flying engineering mount in. I've always said that would be an awesome idea they even went with a helicopter. I'm already going to start saving up the living steel.

Also Lil Ragnaros already acts like a campfire.

Quicksilverisma의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T14:02:55-06:00

Shame that the new weapons cost quite so much living steel though. Very irritating to have to depend on alchemists.

Shahira의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T14:57:47-06:00

Yes! I'm so excited! I didn't get a blacksmithed leveled until Cata, and was sad to see I couldn't get the patterns. This is awesome!

ninjales의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T15:06:38-06:00

liiiiiiionheeeeeart! awww yeah!

Interest의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T15:22:28-06:00

Oooo. New materials. I like this, actually.

I want that portable fire.

Rainemard의 댓글

on 2013-01-25T15:32:45-06:00

Im so happy they are adding a two-person flying engineering mount in. I've always said that would be an awesome idea they even went with a helicopter.

From the icon pic I saw in a link from that other site, you turn into the mount and carry a player in your "claws". I'm still waiting for them to make a flying engineer mount to top 터보 충전 비행기 - it's just so detailed... the rockets just can't compare (no moving parts & the fact you sit IN an active rocket... it doesn't have to make perfect sense, but dang, i'd rather make 3 panthers).

Shame that the new weapons cost quite so much living steel though. Very irritating to have to depend on alchemists.

Originally I had leveled 3 Alchemists to have 1 of each specialization, but yeah... I learned very quickly that it was much more advantageous to have 3 xmute masters.